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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Designer Showcase - Robbie Herring

Hi everyone! I'm Robbie Herring. I have been designing with Bo Bunny
for around 2 years now and I'm lovin' it! For those of you who don't
know me yet, I'll give you a bit of an over-view.

I've been
married to my wonderful husband for 25 years. We just celebrated our
silver anniversary last week! I'm so lucky that he is supportive of
this fun hobby that I came to love. We have been blessed with 2
children. Our daughter is 24 and our son is 22. We couldn't be any
prouder of them! Our daughter is out of college and living about 3
hours from us and our son is a senior at Texas A&M. Whoop!

As
those of you with older children know, it is harder to get recent
pictures of your kids when they aren't living at home. Thank goodness
for Facebook! Without it, I would probably only have Christmas and
other holiday pictures. The layout that I am sharing today is a lift
off of my daughter's facebook. Even though she has a camera, she
usually just uses her phone to take pictures. Some of them won't make
it to the page, but some of them end up looking really great and way
more fun than the perfect pictures I'm always trying to get.

I used the gorgeous new Serenade Collection to make this one. I
chose to really play up the yellows in the collection to go with her
photo. Between her yellow top and the extra saturated picture, it was a
perfect match!

When I'm putting together a page, I like to add lots of little details.
Because I tend to be drawn to EVERYTHING when it comes to
embellishments, I always try to ask myself if I see the pictures. It is
important to me to have my photos take center stage.

This
close-up shows some of the details that I love to do for my pages.
Stitching almost always shows up on my pages and I love clustering and
shaped papers and stickers. Keeping it to the edges of my phot with
just a bit of overlapping helps to keep all this from overwhelming my
photo.

More clustering and a touch of fussy cutting make a showing on the
bottom of the page. I couldn't help but make leaves out of the
patterned paper. Of course, if you are familiar with my work, you will
now that a ribbon or bow almost always ends up being added. If you
haven't tried the Double Dot ribbon, you need to! I LOVE how it has the
dots on both sides to make tying bows and knots a snap!

Recently,
I was looking through my computer at all the Bo Bunny projects and
pages that I have done over the last 2 years. It's funny, but I don't
always go back and look at my pages from the past. Taking a stroll
through my Bo Bunny files was almost like looking through my scrapbooks.
It gave me the idea to share a few of my favorites here.

First,
I wanted to share the first page that I did for Bo Bunny. It's
appropriate to this time of year that it's a first day of school page.
This is my son on his first day of 1st Grade. Where did the time go?
The collection is Learning Curve. I'm still hoarding some of this!

Quick Tip: I used a real wooden ruler on this page. I cut down the
ruler to make it fit better. I used Tim Holtz sissors to do it. Be
sure that your ruler doesn't have a metal strip to get this look.

Next
up, is a Halloween Altered project that I made using the Whooligans
Collection. What an adorable collection! I still have this and pull it
out during Halloween. Would you believe that the candy still looks
great? Wouldn't want to eat it though!

This is a little place setting that I came up with for the Kid's Table
at Christmas. It is one of my favorite projects because I had such a
great time making it!

Summer is such a fun time for having fun and spending time of the water.
I chose this one because I love the picture so much! My daughter made
such great friends in college and I think the picture really gives the
feeling of a perfect summer day. It was made with the Barefoot and
Bliss Collection.

Finally, a more recent collection. This is the Little Miss Collection
and I can't get enough of it! Add a wonderful picture of a baby's first
day at home and it's perfection. As I mentioned earlier, my kids are
grown, so it's especially great to have friends and relatives that share
their pictures.

Hopefully, I haven't gone on tooooo long!

Working with Bo Bunny
for the last 2 years has been such a fantastic experience! I like to
say that I don't have a style and haven't met an embellishment that I
don't love. Bo Bunny fits me perfectly! They do it all and do it so
very beautifully!